On 2011-09-26, at 1:05 PM, Ramsey Gurley wrote:

> 
> On Sep 26, 2011, at 3:57 AM, Jim Kinsey wrote:
> 
>> The last time I did any interviewing for developers, we ended up with some 
>> devs who really did not want to engage with WO on any level, no matter how 
>> they came across in the interview. Years of complaining about WO, misusing 
>> it in ways which hurt the performance of the system (as the last remaining 
>> experienced WO developer I often ended up wading in to sort it out) and then 
>> blaming it on WO without having made the least attempt to learn it 
>> properly...
> 
> Unfortunately, using WO doesn't make one a great programmer (^_^)  Misused, 
> WO is just as awful as any other solution.  If anything, WO provides ample 
> opportunity for misuse because there is so much of WO/Wonder to learn. 
> 
> Some devs just don't want to learn. They prefer to reinvent, poorly.

Agreed.

I don't know how many times I've heard the "this is stupid, just tell me how to 
get a jdbc connection" comment. 

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